July 29, 2016 3:50 p.m. | Locally-owned Anodyne Coffee Roasting Co. has plans to open a cafe along Harwood Avenue in the Village of Wauwatosa.

The cafe would move into a vacant spot next to Niemann's Candies and Ice Cream at 7471 Harwood Ave. According to a letter sent to city staff by owners and couple Matthew McClutchy and Lacee Perry, the location next to Niemann's is strategic.

"We respect the tremendous near 100-year-history of Niemann's Candies and Ice Cream," the letter said. "Anodyne will complement what they do and add to that tradition by creating a similar, long term business serving its neighbors and visitors to the Village of Tosa."

The coffee shop would offer brewed coffee, espresso, tea and other drink options. Food selections would include bagels, soup, quiche and yogurt. A diverse craft beer and wine (by the bottle or glass) are also included on the proposed menu.

The business, which also sells wholesale coffee, already operates retail cafes in Bay View, Walker's Point and inside the Milwaukee Public Market.

July 26, 2016 11:00 p.m. | Wauwatosa West girls basketball coach Ashley Imperiale has resigned to pursue an administrative position within the school district.

The former Greendale High School star took over the Trojans' program in 2012 after spending one season as a co-coach with Ron Gavinski.

Wauwatosa West went 33-64 in Imperiale's four years at the helm. The program won a playoff game in three of Imperiale's four seasons, making the regional final in 2014 and 2015.

The Trojans went 4-20 last season and finished last in the Woodland West at 3-13. After defeating Milwaukee North, 70-29, in its playoff opener, Wauwatosa West fell 46-25 to rival Wauwatosa East in a regional.

Imperiale started at Greendale from 2003-2007 and was a three-time Woodland Conference Player of the Year. She led the Panthers to a 22-3 mark and a trip to the WIAA state semifinal as a senior in 2007. She went on to play collegiately at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from 2008-2011.

Based on what he saw in the video, Jay Anderson, Sr. says his son had his hands up and was trying to talk to the officer when he got shot, though the father said he won't be completely sure what happened unless he can see the rest of the interaction.

District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Deputy District Attorney Kent Lovern met with the family and their attorney Thursday to show them a 20-second clip of the shooting and to let them listen to several minutes of police dispatch transmissions.

Chisholm then announced he would not object to the Wauwatosa police making the recordings public.

However, Anderson said he doesn't believe the clip of the June 23 shooting tells the whole story.

July 25, 2016 10:30 a.m. | The Wauwatosa School District has filed a lawsuit against the WIAA over the conference realignment plan approved by the WIAA Board of Control in April, set to take effect in the 2017-18 school year.

With the lawsuit comes a request for an injunction to stall the realignment plan, which rearranges several schools in the greater Milwaukee area within the Classic 8, Wisconsin Little Ten, Greater Metro, Woodland and North Shore conferences. The legal maneuver seeks to compel the WIAA to scrap its current proposal and start anew.

Wauwatosa was among the districts seeking relief from the current conference alignment in the first place, but Tosa feels its two high schools (West and East) are left in even worse positions following the changes.

In the approved realignment plan, Wauwatosa West would move from the Woodland West to the Greater Metro. Wauwatosa East would stay in the Greater Metro, a league that will only get tougher with the addition of perennial state powerhouse Germantown. Initially, Tosa was hoping for a reverse maneuver, sending East to join West in the Woodland.

"It is really about the future competitive nature of Wauwatosa athletic programs and the ability to remain competitive and field teams," Wauwatosa School District Superintendent Phil Ertl said. "I think, ultimately, we looked at the process that went into place to get to the decision the WIAA came to as being problematic.

July 22, 2016 6:43 p.m. | The Milwaukee County district attorney's office announced Friday that it had received the final investigative report into the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Jay Anderson by a Wauwatosa police officer.

Milwaukee police led the investigation to fulfill a state law that requires a team of at least two investigators from an outside agency to lead investigations of officer-involved deaths.

According to a statement, District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Deputy District Attorney Kent Lovern met with members of Anderson's family and their legal representatives and shared the evidence collected by the Milwaukee Police Department.

The evidence includes recordings of officer dispatches before and after the critical incident, video of the incident and reports by the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner and the Wisconsin State Crime Laboratory.

The DA's office did not release a timetable for determining whether the police officer would be criminally charged.

July 20, 2016 10:29 a.m. | Future football stars in Wisconsin were on the table this week when Ben Worgull of the Badger Nation stopped by to talk about the state of the Badgers gridiron team, which begins in earnest Sept. 3 with a battle at Lambeau Field against LSU. Ben also talked Badgers basketball recruiting and JP and JR discussed the WIFCA All-Star game, featuring a couple future Badgers last weekend. Plus, the baseball state-tourney field is set. Each week, Lake Country/Now sports director JR Radcliffe and Time Warner Cable Sports Channel's JP Cadorin chat about the Wisconsin sports scene, with an emphasis on Milwaukee-area preps. Find the podcast on Stitcher and iTunes.

July 20, 2016 9:48 a.m. | It had been quite some time since the Wauwatosa East baseball team last celebrated a WIAA playoff victory. The fact the Red Raiders' first postseason win since 2007 came over their crosstown rivals made it even sweeter.

A complete-game gem by Spencer Michaelis led sixth-seeded Wauwatosa East to a 3-1 win over 11th-seeded Wauwatosa West in a regional semifinal game July 12 at Breitlow Field.

"With the crosstown matchup, we know that we were in for a battle," Red Raider coach Pete Schwichtenberg said. "That is exactly what we got."

Wauwatosa West strikes first

The Trojans took a 1-0 lead on an RBI single by Logan Scharf that scored Jake Hronek in the top of the second.

July 20, 2016 9:15 a.m. | There's still six weeks to play in the Midstates Football League regular season, but the playoff race is already taking shape.

The Milwaukee County Chargers helped their playoff chances July 16 by pulling out a 27-20 overtime win over the Muskego Hitmen.

Chargers strike first

After dropping their first two games, the Chargers have won two straight to pull into a tie with Muskego for the third and final playoff spot from the Northern Division.

Three plays into Muskego's opening drive, Charger linebacker Steve Vitale intercepted a pass and returned it to the Muskego 11-yard line. The turnover led to a 9-yard touchdown pass from Shannon King to Jordan Cosby to put Milwaukee County up 7-0.

July 19, 2016 6:26 p.m. | About 30 community activists crowded into Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm's office Tuesday to press for the disclosure of information on the killing of Jay Anderson by a Wauwatosa police officer.

The officer, whose name has not been made public, shot Anderson on June 23. Anderson had been sleeping in his car in Madison Park. The Wauwatosa police department said the officer feared for his safety when he saw that Anderson had a gun.

The group of activists, which included representatives from various community organizations and Sen. Lena Taylor (D-Milwaukee), presented a letter to Chisholm demanding that he release the dashboard video of the shooting and other info.

"They had no right to do that to [Anderson]," activist Rodney Robbins said.

Chisholm told the group that he has not yet received all findings from Milwaukee police, who are investigating the shooting to comply with a state law requiring that outside agencies investigate police-related deaths.

July 19, 2016 4:10 p.m. | There's a new game grabbing the attention of young people in Wauwatosa and thrusting them into the great outdoors. It's called Pokémon Go.

Curious about the new game that's encouraging people to get active and make new friends, I downloaded the app on my iPhone and got to work. Alongside photographer C.T. Kruger, I hit the streets of Wauwatosa to uncover exactly what makes this game so appealing.

About Pokémon

But first, here's a little background information on Pokémon: it's a media franchise that was created in Japan in 1995. It's centered on fictional creatures called "Pokémon," which humans, known as Pokémon trainers, catch and train to battle each other for sport. The franchise began as video games and now includes animated television shows, movies, comic books, toys and trading cards.

I was never much of a fan of Pokémon growing up, but I remember Pokémon being a big deal when I was about 8 years old in the late 1990s. My friends would bring plastic Poké balls to school and launch them throughout the hallways; the Pokémon television show would play in the background during playdates at friends' houses; and Pokémon trading cards were hot show and tell items.